13 Urgent Health Challenges for the Next Decade

The World Health Organization recently announced a list of urgent global health challenges for the next decade. Reflecting a deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems.

“There are no shortcuts to a healthier world”

The 13 urgent health challenges for the next decade are:
– Protecting the medicines that protect us
– Stopping infectious diseases
– Preparing for epidemics
– Elevating health in the climate debate
– Delivering health in conflict and crisis
– Making health care fairer
– Keeping health care clean
– Expanding access to medicines
– Protecting people from dangerous products
– Investing in the people who defend our health
– Keeping adolescents safe
– Earning public trust
– Harnessing new technologies
*Not listed in order of priority. All are urgent, and many are interlinked.

For more information:
https://www.who.int/news-room/photo-story/photo-story-detail/urgent-health-challenges-for-the-next-decade